A Shiny New Flagship Hotel Restaurant Is Coming to Downtown

If downtown Seattle isn’t a superb space for companies, as some individuals have mentioned, those self same individuals evidently didn’t inform the Sheraton Grand Lodge, which is opening a luxe new ground-floor restaurant known as Alder & Ash in Might.

The area was previously occupied by the Each day Grill, which closed in 2020 (earlier than the pandemic kicked off), however with this new challenge the Sheraton is aiming for one thing a bit of extra high-end. Alder & Ash might be operated by the Apicii hospitality group, a widely known agency that runs dozens of eating places in New York, New Jersey, Oklahoma Metropolis, and elsewhere. Apicii additionally runs the Rosswood in Portland, and in Seattle it operates Steelhead Alley and Hatback Bar and Grille within the Mariners’ Boxyard improvement.

The menu has been created by Apicii culinary director Ed McDevitt and Blake Lord-Wittig, who’s going to develop into Alder & Ash’s govt chef. As you would possibly count on from a downtown lodge restaurant, this menu might be heavy on the native seafood and “new American” delicacies. Fortunately it feels like there might be a number of welcome twists to the staple gadgets, like saffron crab tomalley butter with the Penn Cove mussels and mezcal cocktail sauce with the oysters.

The restaurant, positioned at 629 Pike Road, will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and is slated to open someday in late Might. If nothing else, it’s a welcome signal that capital hasn’t given up on downtown.